Track 4. The growing city and the green city: transforming urban economies and the challenges of global warming

Cities are deeply linked with the causes of climate change and, at the same time, are at the forefront of a battle to change. This track aims to explore the continuously changing ways in which cities confront socio-ecological issues in relation to the economic restructuring which resulted from the global crisis, in a context shaped by policies stimulating competition between cities. Aspects such as the role of the public sector in delivering economic change and the manner in which post-socialist cities manage to regulate market development are of particular interest to this track.